ESTIMATION OF U.S. CORN ACREAGE

Crop Production/Industries,

SUPPLY RESPONSE OF U.S. SORGHUM ACREAGE TO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries,

OATS AND BARLEY ACREAGE SUPPLY FUNCTION

Crop Production/Industries,

SUPPLY ANALYSIS FOR CORN IN THE UNITED STATES: THE IMPACT OF CHANGING GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

This paper has two objectives: to analyze acreage supply relationships for corn, the major U.S. feed grain, during the 1948-70 period and to develop and test a general theoretical model for evaluating farm commodity program effectiveness. Hence, special emphasis is devoted to empirical measurement and analysis of the effects of government feed grain policy and programs as they have evolved since 1948. Particular attention is focused on the voluntary feed grain programs of the 1960's.Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries,

THE GREEN REVOLUTION: ITS IMPACT ON TRADE AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN DEVELOPED NATIONS

Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade,

Fostering Transformative Learning, Self-reflexivity and Medical Citizenship Through Guided Tours of Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

Background and objectives: Medical school curricula increasingly seek to promote medical students’ commitment to redressing health disparities, but traditional pedagogical approaches have fallen short of this goal. The objective of this work was to assess the value of using community-based guided tours of disadvantaged neighborhoods to fill this gap. Methods: A total of 50 second-year medical students participated in a guided tour of disadvantaged public housing neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia. Students completed self-reflexive writing exercises during a post-tour debriefing session. Student writings were analyzed to assess the tour’s effect on their awareness of poverty’s impact on vulnerable populations’ health and wellbeing, and their personal reactions to the tour. Results: Student writings indicated that the activity fostered transformative learning experiences around the issue of poverty and its effects on health and stimulated a personal commitment to working with underserved populations. Themes from qualitative analysis included: increased awareness of the extent of poverty, enhanced self-reflexive attitude towards personal feelings, biases and misperceptions concerning the poor, increased intentional awareness of the effects of poverty on patient health and well-being, and, encouragement to pursue careers of medical service. Conclusions: This pilot demonstrated that incorporating self-reflexive learning exercises into a brief community-based guided tour can enhance the social consciousness of medical students by deepening understandings of health disparities and promoting transformative learning experiences

Tips for Transition

This is the publisher's version, also found here: http://cec.metapress.com/content/pg3503702q337226/?p=40fa3764544b4d9a800149bae1e15b89&pi=5The article focuses on the best practices solicited by the Division on Career Development & Transition (DCDT) for the student to adult life transition planning for youth with disabilities. The DCDT launched an effort to identify field-based transition practices used by practitioners, reviewed them, and confirmed their category based on the five broad areas of Kohler's Taxonomy for Transition Planning including student-focused planning, interagency collaboration, and family involvement. The tips include initiating a transition process with realistic goals not later than the ninth and tenth grade, organizing a peer monitoring group, and creating a discovery profile for each student

Illuminating the Process of Youth Development: The Mediating Effect of Thriving on Youth Development Program Outcomes

This paper examines the relationship between the developmental contexts of youth programs and resultant developmental outcomes, and explores whether the developmental process of thriving mediates this relationship. Developmental context is proposed to consist of three elements: (1) youth sparks, (2) program quality, and (3) developmental relationships. Combined, these elements describe youth program context more precisely than in previous studies, allowing for a clearer understanding of effective program settings. Likewise, the process of youth thriving provides insight into the mechanism through which youth development occurs. Sufficient model fit, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the 4-H Thriving scale were determined through a multi-phase confirmatory factor analysis. As hypothesized, structural equation modeling revealed a full mediational effect of youth thriving on developmental outcomes. The results of this study guide youth development practitioners to focus on the quality of the developmental context of youth programs and the ways in which programs can promote youth thriving

A STUDY OF U.S. EXPORTS OF SOYBEANS AND SOYBEAN MEAL

International Relations/Trade,